 | Raymond Moody, M.D.A world renowned scholar, lecturer, author and researcher, Dr. Raymond Moody is the leading authority on the Near Death Experience. He is a dynamic scholar who has enlightened and entertained audiences all over the world for more than two decades.
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Gary Zukav.... is the author of the international best-sellers, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, which won the 1979 American Book Award in Science, and The Seat of the Soul, which has been a long-running New York Times non-fiction bestseller. Gary is a visionary thinker who unifies science and spirituality. His writings are beautifully simple and poetic, conveying wisdom and inspiration
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 | Bernie S. Siegel, M.D... always called "Bernie", more than 17 years ago he began talkin.g about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. He stands at the forefront of the medical ethics issues that our society grapples with today.Some of his bestsellers are Love, Medicine & Miracles, Peace, Love & Healing and How to Live Between Office Visits: A Guide To Life, Love and Health.
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Beth DuPree, M.D.Dr. DuPree, a surgeon who is focusing her practice on breast cancer care, believes that using a holistic approach to healing a patient is extremely important. It is her position that marrying both holistic therapies with state-of-the-art, leading-edge technology can lead to better outcomes—even in people with life-threatening disease, such as cancer. Her compelling book, The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor’s Journey to Healing, is valuable for anyone on a spiritual path.
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 | Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into main-stream medicine and society. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he was founder and former director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, and its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic. He is also the vice-chairman of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organises dialogues between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists.
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Lama Surya Das...one of the foremost American Lamas in the Buddhist tradition, has been an integral part of Buddhism's surge in popularity in recent years. His bestselling book, Awakening the Buddha Within, made Buddhism accessible and inspiring to serious practitioners and neophytes alike.
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 | James Van PraaghJames Van Praagh is one of the nation's most renowned spiritual mediums. He is able to bridge the gap between two planes of existence, that of the living and that of the dead, by providing evidential proof of life after death via detailed messages.Author of the New York Times best-selling Talking to Heaven, James's messages have brought solace, peace, and spiritual insights, changing the views of millions on both life and death.
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John HollandJohn Holland is a gifted psychic medium who has spent more than 20 years investigating and developing his abilities as a spirit messenger. When John lectures to full-capacity audiences throughout the world, he refers to himself as the cable between the two phones: “I’m just the middleman.”
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 | Jeffrey WandsWhen Jeffrey Wands was six years old, he met his great grandmother Mary. She had been dead for twenty-three years. Gifted psychic Jeffrey Wands's connection with his great grandmother was the first step in a remarkable journey that has led to his current status as one of the most acclaimed and successful psychics and mediums in the country.
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Melvin Morse, M.D....is a pediatrician and neuroscientist who has spent fifteen years studying the near death experiences of children. This best selling author of Transformed by the Light, Closer to the Light, and Parting Visions provides scientific proof that near death experiences exist and have physical and emotional effects on people's lives
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 | Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D....is the author of Time Shifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life and president of Omega Institute where he helped initiate the holistic education movement. Omega offers a wide variety of programs in health, wellness, psychological development, relationships, body work, art, music, dance, and sports and may be visited at
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Judith Orloff, M.D.Dr. Judith Orloff asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal and prevent illness. Her struggles acknowledging and then finally embracing her gift of heightened intuition are chronicled in Second Sight and Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing.
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 | Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.... has been a therapist to people with life-threatening illnesses and an educator to physicians who serve them for more than 20 years. Medical Director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, and founder and Director of The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal, a CME program for physicians interested in taking a relationship-centered approach to the care of their patients. Dr. Remen is known and loved for her New York Times best-selling book, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal. She is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she is also on the Executive Committee of the new Center for Integrative Medicine.
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Robert Thurman, Ph.D.Robert A.F. Thurman lives to make the teachings of the Buddha interesting and meaningful to people from all over the world. In doing so, he has been recognized as one of America's leading voices for sanity and peace in the new millennium. In 1997, Time Magazine chose him as one of its 25 most influential Americans.
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 | Steven Halpern"There is an intimacy about Steven Halpern's music that relaxes the body, opens the heart, and soothes the soul."Steven Halpern: My vision for this music is to anchor an experience of peace within you. From that place of inner peace, you radiate peace to the world. In so doing, you each contribute your part to the symphony of life and to creating more peace on our planet."
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David RosenthalDavid Rosenthal’s new short film “Witnessing Death” is a powerful film essay about the death of his grandfather, Kurt Rosenthal, from Alzheimer's. By interweaving his grandfather’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, the personal experiences of certified nursing aides, and interviews with clinical experts and medical ethicists, the video functions as both a personal memoir and as a dialogue on end-of-life issues.David is currently a medical student at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and in addition to his studies, is currently teaching a seminar course on the portrayal of medicine in film and television.
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Near Death Experience - IANDSInternational Association for Near-Death Studieshas created a fascinating website for those who have an interest in near-death experiences
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